War

A war novel is a novel in which the primary action takes place in a field of armed combat, or in a domestic setting (or home front) where the characters are preoccupied with the preparations for, or recovery from, war.


See history for specific wars.
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The Rush: California Gold, the Civil War, and the Making of the Modern World
Castles: A Fortified History of the World
The Best Kind of American: A True Story of Murder, War, and America's Undoing in the Middle East
The Phantom: The Untold Story of the American Marine the Nazis Could Not Kill
Napoleon and His Marshals: Victory, Rivalry, Betrayal
Bird Men: The Rise of American Airpower and the Machine That Ended World War II
The Gods Will Sing Our Song
Redwood: The Untold Story of the Cold War's Most Extraordinary Spy
The Cauldron: The Making of the Modern Middle East
The Silent Women
Shadow Before the Flame: The Hindenburg Disaster and the Prelude to War
A Librarian's War: The Man Who Fought World War II with Books and Brought the Joy of Reading to Millions
War: A Graphic Novel
Operation Sparrow: The Incredible True Story of the Spies Who Tricked Hitler and Won the War
The Dissidents: Autocrats! Vigilantes! Communists! And Cartoonists!
Dodge City
In the Likely Event
The Incendiary (The Selvaren, #2)
Under the Iron Sky (The Iron Sky Trilogy, #1)
The German Ward
The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau
Tame the Dark
Keeper of Lost Children
Adam and Eve
Etna
Mrs. Endicott's Splendid Adventure
Agrippa: A Novel of Ancient Rome's Descent into Dictatorship
Lázár
All the Broken Places
Family of Spies
The Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienMatterhorn by Karl MarlantesDispatches by Michael HerrA Rumor of War by Philip CaputoThe Quiet American by Graham Greene
Best Literature About the Vietnam War
349 books — 657 voters
The Book Thief by Markus ZusakCatch-22 by Joseph HellerSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrAtonement by Ian McEwan
World War II Fiction
1,517 books — 2,315 voters

The Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankNight by Elie WieselThe Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John BoyneNumber the Stars by Lois Lowry
Well-Written Holocaust Books
957 books — 3,156 voters
1984 by George OrwellThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Road by Cormac McCarthyBrave New World by Aldous Huxley
Smart Apocalyptic and Dystopian Fiction
556 books — 771 voters

The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsViciously Yours by Jamie Applegate HunterCatching Fire by Suzanne CollinsThe Three Witches and The Master by Max NowazBeing a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For by Sara Pascoe
Favourite young adult books
1,817 books — 1,821 voters
I'll Be Your Drill, Soldier by Crystal RoseSpecial Forces by Aleksandr VoinovZero at the Bone by Jane SevilleLatakia by J.F.  SmithCut & Run by Madeleine Urban
Best Gay Soldiers
527 books — 692 voters

All Quiet on the Western Front
The Book Thief
Slaughterhouse-Five
All the Light We Cannot See
Catch-22
The Diary of a Young Girl
The Things They Carried
The Art of War
The Nightingale
Night
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
A Farewell to Arms
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
The Women
War and Peace

Voltaire
“ It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. ”
― Voltaire

Howard Zinn
“ There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people. ”
― Howard Zinn

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